As a longtime Republican incumbent prepares to step down in New Jersey’s Eleventh Congressional District, the Republican candidate hoping to succeed him makes little mention of the President.
Warren is reinforcing an insidious way in which Americans talk about race: as though it were a measurable biological category, one that, in some cases, can be determined by a single drop of blood.
It is important not to conflate two separate concepts: the legal issue of affirmative action and the factual issue of whether Harvard discriminated against one particular racial group.
Rather than wait for the dénouement of the Trump story, which is unlikely to be pretty, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. is getting out while the getting is good.
Is this profound collective reckoning with the extent to which men have been allowed to abuse their power an epochal shift toward a more equal society or a fleeting moment that cannot last?